Instead, the nation's last undefeated college basketball team is eager to end the 39-year wait to add another member to the club - even if an old rival is trying to make history in the Hoosiers' backyard.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:46:35 -04002015-03-31T17:46:35-04:002015-03-31T17:46:35-04:00MILWAUKEE - After Michigan State clinched a spot in the Final Four over the weekend, Wisconsin's Sam Dekker wrote a short but pointed note on Twitter that packed as much of a punch as one of his slam dunks.

"The Big Ten had a down year right?" Dekker asked.

If anyone had that perception, it certainly isn't the case anymore with two teams in the NCAA Tournament national semifinals - which is being held in the middle of Big Ten country in Indianapolis, no less.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:38:11 -04002015-03-31T17:38:11-04:002015-03-31T17:38:11-04:00A 31-year-old man who has spent most of adulthood behind bars was charged Tuesday with multiple felonies in the shooting death of Clinton Township party store owner Emil Salem.]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:36:56 -04002015-03-31T12:36:56-04:002015-03-31T17:30:52-04:00Michigan Air National Guard and Detroit Navy history are highlighted in new publications on Selfridge's 127th Wing's History and Heritage web page, 127wg.ang.af.mil/resources/history&heritage.asp. They are "The Michigan Air National Guard at War: A Combat History 1954-2013", which traces 60 years of the Air National Guard and also contains dozens of historic photos.]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:12:30 -04002015-03-31T17:12:30-04:002015-03-31T17:12:30-04:00Spring sports season.

That's what both the calendar and the high school schedule indicate anyway.

The National Weather Service might say differently. Same goes with Alan Longstreet and Dave Rexroth.

We woke up to three inches or so of snow Tuesday morning.

Play ball!? That sort of accumulation sure limits the roll on ground balls trying their best to get through the infield.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:10:15 -04002015-03-31T17:10:15-04:002015-03-31T17:10:15-04:00NEW YORK - Even before the first pitch of the 2015 season is thrown, an eye-popping baseball record will be set.

The average salary when opening-day rosters are finalized Sunday will break the $4 million barrier for the first time, according to a study of all major league contracts by The Associated Press.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:04:01 -04002015-03-31T17:04:01-04:002015-03-31T17:04:01-04:00The Oakland University Board of Trustees will be discussing several of the school's ancillary budgets when it meets Wednesday, April 1.

Budgets for activities such as intercollegiate athletics, which has a proposed budget of $8.4 million for the 2016 fiscal year, would take effect when the school's fiscal year begins July 1.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:22:17 -04002015-03-31T16:22:17-04:002015-03-31T17:03:55-04:00Holding a chunk of concrete that fell from a bridge, Gov. Rick Snyder urged Macomb County business leaders Tuesday to support Proposal 1 and fix Michigan roads.

Speaking before approximately 400 people at a Macomb Chamber Alliance luncheon, Snyder said voter defeat of the proposed increase in the state sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent will lead to further deterioration of roads and that no funding alternatives are on the horizon.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:50:39 -04002015-03-31T13:50:39-04:002015-03-31T16:59:34-04:00Dan McGraw of Springfield Township has gone to Detroit Tigers' Opening Day every year for the last 43 years.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:54:45 -04002015-03-31T09:54:45-04:002015-03-31T16:58:05-04:00DETROIT - More than 13,000 Detroit-area property owners have entered into payment plans hoping to avoid losing their homes to tax foreclosure, but another 16,000 living in their homes have yet to take advantage of the offer ahead of Tuesday's deadline.

Hundreds of applicants sat in a hotel ballroom waiting for the chance to plead their cases before Wayne County Treasury workers, with many lining up before 7 a.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:49:18 -04002015-03-31T16:49:18-04:002015-03-31T16:49:18-04:00DETROIT - Many tractor-trailers on the nation's roads are driven faster than the 75 mph their tires are designed to handle, a practice that has been linked to wrecks and blowouts but has largely escaped the attention of highway officials.

Nearly all truck tires have been built for a maximum sustained speed of 75 mph since the middle of last decade, when drivers across the vast majority of the U.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:36:16 -04002015-03-31T16:36:16-04:002015-03-31T16:36:16-04:00Royal Oak police officers raised support for a local charity with a special kind of lip service in March -- they grew mustaches.

Throughout Mustache March, officers expressed their follicular freedom and grew lower-nose ticklers to benefit Camp Casey, a non-profit group in Royal Oak that runs a horseback-riding program for children with cancer and their families.

A female friend of the 57-year-old resident is expected to be charged this afternoon with killing him, then setting the house on fire to cover up the crime, according to police Lt.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:49:21 -04002015-03-31T14:49:21-04:002015-03-31T16:15:44-04:00When it released its first album in 2012, the all-star Diamond Rugs' members swore that the group would be a going concern.

With the late February release of their sophomore set, "Cosmetics," they can now say they weren't kidding.

"I'm just glad it's finally out," says keyboardist Robbie Crowell, who's also in the band Deer Tick with Diamond Rugs mate John McCauley.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:14:09 -04002015-03-31T16:14:09-04:002015-03-31T16:14:09-04:00The attorneys for a Hazel Park couple battling the state's ban on same-sex marriage have determined who will present oral arguments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mary Bonauto has been tasked with that duty. On April 28, she will address whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex, according to a press release issued Tuesday morning.